Program and Project Documents

The following tables show the documents that are required for each account holder and project, what account or project phase the document pertains to, and if the document is available for public review. Please use the menu immediately below to sort the documents by project type. For CA Compliance Offset Program documents, click here.

This form attests to the project’s compliance status throughout the project reporting period. The form identifies specific dates during the reporting period over which the project was in material compliance with all laws. In addition, the form confirms that the project developer has disclosed to their verification body in writing any and all instances of non-compliance of the project with any law.

This form confirms that the project was implemented and established voluntarily and continues to operate as such. The project developer further attests that at no time was the project required to be enacted by any law, statute, rule, regulation or other legally binding mandate by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory agency having jurisdiction over the project.

This form allows Early Action Offset Credit holders to opt in to release their contact information to designated parties. The Reserve will release contact information only and not specify the quantity of EAOC holdings.

This form is required when a verification body wishes to receive a list of parties that hold greater than 30 percent of CRTs from an early action offset project. Only ARB-approved verification bodies performing regulatory verification for an early action offset projects will be given access to this information as it pertains to section 95990 of the Cap and Trade regulation.

The variance log summarizes information for all variances approved by the Reserve. The log includes information regarding the project developer, the project name, the protocol version and section of relevance, and what the variance is related to. All variance approval letters are accessible through our public reports and contain more specific information relative to the variance. This log will be regularly updated by Reserve staff.

Verification bodies must have a duly authorized representative of its organization sign and submit the legally binding form to the Reserve in order to be eligible to conduct verification activities under the Reserve program. The purpose of this required agreement between the Reserve and its verification bodies is to ensure that personnel performing verification activities are aware of their roles, responsibilities, and obligations under the program. This includes an attachment of a Verification Staff Reporting Form with a roster of all staff members who will be designated verifiers and serve as key personnel on Reserve projects. This form must be updated annually.

If there is not enough room in the Verification Policies Acknowledgment, Agreement, and Verification Staff Reporting Form to list all staff that will participate in verification activities, please use the additional tables in this document and submit them along with the original form.

A document for verification bodies that gives insight into the verification process, the requirements for conducting verification (like accreditation and training), conflict of interest and confidentiality provisions, and the core verification activities expected under the Reserve.

Coal Mine Methane Projects

Diagrammatic representation of the mine that illustrates how the project is defined and includes the location, quantity and type of boreholes, ventilation shafts, eligible destruction devices and non-qualifying destruction devices within a project’s GHG Assessment Boundary.

An agreement between the Reserve and a Forest Owner setting forth the Forest Owner’s obligation to comply with the Forest Project Protocol and the rights and remedies of the Reserve in the event of any failure of the Forest Owner to comply with its obligations. Note: This is the final version of the Project Implementation Agreement, the document indicates that it is a draft as it is not considered final until it is fully executed by both the Project Developer and the Climate Action Reserve.

A standard document for reporting required information about a forest project. The Project Design Document must be submitted for review by a verifier and approved by the Reserve before the forest project can be registered with the Reserve.

A report stating the project’s estimated annual carbon stocks, attesting that the project is carrying out the intended project activities, and confirming that the project’s carbon stocks are increasing or decreasing in accordance with initial projections.

This report is required when a project elects to take a zero-credit reporting period (see section 3.3.3 of the Reserve Program Manual) or when choosing verification period Option 3 (see section 8 of the Livestock Project Protocol).

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Reserve Livestock Calculation Tool Version 3.0d (October 3, 2012)

The Reserve has developed the Beta Livestock Calculation Tool to assist with the quantification of projects using the Livestock Project Protocol. If you are developing a livestock project and would like to receive a copy of this tool, please send an e-mail to reserve@climateactionreserve.org. In the body of the e-mail message, please include the following information: Reserve Project ID number, dates of the current reporting period for your project, and version of the livestock protocol for which the tool will be used (the U.S. Livestock Project Protocol is currently the only variant that is supported, but other versions of the tool may be available at a later date).

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Livestock Project Design Document

The purpose of this document is to assist livestock project developers in identifying high areas of risk, highlight important aspects of the Livestock Project Protocol, and facilitate verification.To request a copy, please send an email to reserve@climateactionreserve.org and indicate your Reserve Project ID number and dates of the current reporting period.

Nitrogen Management Projects

Spreadsheet in *.csv file format that contains the serial number, county, state, and names of the project participants for each field enrolled in the project. The field serial number is determined by the following algorithm: first letter of the county – latitude of the most NW point of the field – longitude of the most NW point of the field – acreage of the field. (Example: B-39.6123-121.5332-76 would be a 76-acre field in Butte County, CA.) The List of Enrolled Fields must be up-to-date prior to the commencement of verification services.